Special Features

IAVI Report’s Special Features page offers a mix of video, audio, and printed materials that extend beyond what our regular bi-monthly publications offer. Here you will find audio chapters in our Living History of AIDS Vaccines series, which was launched in 2009. You can also find infographics, including an AIDS vaccine research timeline that is being updated periodically to reflect the ever-shifting tides of AIDS vaccine science, and special coverage of pivotal events like the RV144 trial that provided the first evidence of vaccine-induced protection against HIV.

Videos / Podcasts

Podcast: Q&A with Nelson Michael

For a Q&A that appeared in our Sep.-Oct. 2012 issue, Andreas von Bubnoff spoke with U.S. Military HIV Research Program director Nelson Michael to talk about the state of AIDS vaccine research. The MHRP is one of the main collaborators on RV144, the only clinical trial that has shown efficacy for an HIV vaccine candidate. Michael played a major role in conducting RV144, in its analysis, and in planning follow up trials. His laboratory collaborates with many other research groups around the world to develop new HIV vaccine candidates. Click on the icon below for an audio version of the interview.

Results from RV144 Send Scientists in Search of Clues. Whether or not this trial is the key that helps researchers unlock the mysteries of immunological protection against HIV, it provides an important clue—actually 8,000 of them.